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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793563303321

Autore

Egunov-Nikolev Andrei

Titolo

Beyond Tula : A Soviet Pastoral / / Andrei Egunov-Nikolev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-64469-096-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 pages)

Collana

Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century

Altri autori (Persone)

MorseAinsley

Disciplina

891.7342

Soggetti

20th century literature

Faust

Leningrad

OBERIU

Russian High Modernist literature

Russian literature

Soviet literature

Tolstoy

absurd

absurdism

fiction

homosexual romance

literary fiction

literature

novel

opera

pastoral

production novel

twentieth century literature

LITERARY CRITICISM / General

Soviet Union Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- A Soviet Pastoral -- A Note on Names -- Part One -- Part Two -- Part Three -- Egunov Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Andrei Egunov-Nikolev's Beyond Tula is an uproarious romp through the earnestly boring and unintentionally campy world of early Soviet "production" prose, with its celebration of robust workers heroically building socialism. Combining burlesque absurdism and lofty references to classical and Russian High Modernist literature with a rather tongue-in-cheek plot about the struggles of an industrializing rural proletariat, this "Soviet pastoral" actually appeared in the official press in 1931 (though it was quickly removed from circulation). As a renegade classics scholar, Egunov was aware of the expressive potential latent in so-called "light genres"-Beyond Tula is a modernist pastoral jaunt that leaves the reader with plenty to ponder.